You know the healthcare meme "The United States has the best health care in the world." I'm not sure what the comparitive data shows, but a recent study on treatment administation by medical doctors (conducted by the Rand corporation, so take it for what it may be worth) observes that:
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The researchers argue that the U.S. health-care system is too fragmented, with care often provided by several different doctors and other professionals who don't coordinate or often even know all that's been done for a patient, and that the system lacks enough financial incentives for providing the best care.
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Sounds like a systemic problem partially bourne out by the urge to decentralize. How do we re-splice the wetware back into a healthcare system that seems increasingly beholden to spreadsheet demands and less dedicated to administering and dispensing recommended treatments/therapies to the soft tissue the system is ostensibly supposed to serve.
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